tonight a devastating fertilizer factory explosion in texas up to fifteen people are dead and over one hundred sixty wounded the massive blast likened to a nuclear bomb leveled buildings for blocks in every direction now questions are raised over why such a plant was allowed near a school a nursing home and a hospital. and what's become a dark week for the united states in boston images now released which could show the suspect behind the marathon bombings the envelope laced with toxic rice in the sense of president obama. notes of formula one protests in bahrain denounce holding a glamorous race while human rights abuses with fresh reports of police firing tear gas at furious demonstrate.

nine pm here in moscow this thursday night one story dominating our coverage with me kevin zero in tonight thanks for being with us by the way the latest developments in the u.s. state of texas where that massive blast has ripped through a fertilizer plant police say up to fifteen people have been killed and at least one hundred sixty are injured but emergency crews searching for survivors fear as many as seventy may have died. thank you but i think the weird. experts say that explosion had a force of a minor earthquake it destroyed several buildings the in searing blaze spread to nearby apartment blocks and schools now the fire at the plant's under control but several firefighters and a police officer are feared dead officials have shut down power supplies and evacuated from the town the cause of what went so badly wrong here still not known

police say they'll begin an investigation once rescue operations are over but the so far there's no evidence of foul play. well the explosion and that that texan plant was highlights in was his has highlighted shortcomings in the u.s. system of industrial risk management already the big questions are being asked at the fertilizer plant reported that only held around twenty four kilograms of an hydrous ammonia far less than what appears to be the twenty turns that have gone up here and the report stated there were no fire or explosive risks the worst possible scenario it in visit was a ten minute release of ammonia gas but without any casualties of course this blast shook houses around eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of injuries and deaths are washington correspondent says safety at the plant had been questioned before. this fertilizer plant that exploded in west texas on wednesday night was fined by the environmental protection agency in two thousand and six full failing to have

a risk legend plans that met federal standards so that was back in two thousand and six according to the e.p.a. a risk management plan is designed to ensure chemical accidents don't happen by having safeguards in place to prevent them according to construction permits and let it be november that year this company west fertilizer valid still need all standards expected for and i had. ammonia storage tanks and he was one of those tanks that blew up this one saying i get the bad news is the way in the toxic chemicals that it's spreading around the area many of those who've been hospitalized suffered from ammonia and who lation here's what experts say about the spread of those toxic chemicals were fertilizer as we know is extremely combustible so it's been used in bombs and so it's manufacture is extremely delicate and can easily if handled wrong or if handled and safely can lead to explosions so we have to assume at this point that it is such a chemical explosion that's happened there at the plant when you're handling

chemicals like this there is a possibility that there can be chemical contamination that could that would need to be cleaned up in the aftermath of the explosion so they'll undoubtedly be extensive monitoring of the areas around the plant in order to make sure that whatever chemicals have been spread around can be cleaned up to reduce future toxicity to the residents with the kinds of winds that blow in such big intense fires there will be airborne distribution. so there's nothing that can be done while the event just happening what will be done is is assessment and cleanup in the aftermath currently people are being evacuated because of the dangers to for further explosions for fire to spread and also for spread around of some of the chemicals from the plant however those will almost certainly be deposited close to the plant and it will be possible to get in there make assessments and do cleanup of the area in the future so those are the primary dangers. well we're getting

signs his views on what could a cause is huge explosion at that plant in texas professor professor chris of a busby from the european committee of radiation respects another more dangerous compound could have been involved and hydrous ammonia on its own would not be able to produce the kind of devastation that we hear is occurring over there it seems much more likely to me that like the other mono nitrate plant explosions in history particularly the one in one hundred twenty one in germany and there was one also in texas in one hundred forty seven is that somehow the ammonium nitrate itself the fertilizer material that was produced by this wrong to explode it now it's quite easy to detonate ammonium nitrate in fact ammonium nitrate was used in the war as am a toll as a as a war explosive and ammonium nitrate is a constituent of many explosives now so i do for the photos to start off with i don't i don't think that this was caused by an ammonia by an harder simonyan

ammonia tank exploding although probably that would have exploded. when the main explosion took place but of course ammonia itself is very toxic it's it's it's a respected tree irritant and it would cause lots of serious a trach problems but then it cause it's also produced when ammonium nitrate itself is heated up so if you heat ammonia nitrate to about three hundred fifty degrees it dissociates into ammonia and nitrite acid and so these two things would be quite toxic fumes to anybody inhaling them but i as i say i don't think that that that that i don't think that that could be the cause of the level of explosive force that we have seen here i mean something very much larger has happened here. christopher busby there's all initial thoughts of course from the scientists we've been getting to speak to throughout the day there have been question marks regulatory question marks raised about this plant before there was a safety concern about it let's take

a look at where it was in conjunction with the neighborhood around it well as you can see on this satellite picture those the fertilizer plants that whole area there but so close to this middle school kids were in the morning you know when mother gone off a nursing home so close a hospital so close it's a big business as well i must tell you we did a bit of research here i didn't realize that. first choice of production is such a big business in fact the u.s. exports that least ten point eight billion dollars last year of fertilizer in fact imports even more thirteen billion dollars it's a huge business now homes as far away from here as eighty kilometers were feeling the blast some apartment blocks were leveled. you can see as i say where this plant was let's take a look at where the plants are across the united states shall we there's a lot of them you might be surprised producing and dealing with nitrogen phosphate potash there they all are some of them close to residential areas of course the question marks going to be raised again tonight as they always are when something

a renter's like this happens are they safe enough is the right material the right quantities of material being stored there as should be i not more that these are still things to come out with what may or may not have happened in texas let's get some sort showing from the investigative journalist david lindorff now. over and over companies get cited for not having these risky plans in place and they get a small fine and then they don't do anything you know they they maybe go through the motions of having the risk plan but the reality is that it makes absolutely no sense to even have a plant like this in a town but all over especially in the west where you've got fertilizer plants oil refineries and so on they are right in the middle of these small towns with houses all around them and schools and nursing homes the problem is that in the united states the entire regulatory apparatus that oversees these kinds of safety issues

has been captured by industry by corporations through their control of the politicians get through their campaign contributions it's really not a lesson for the authorities it's a lesson for the american people that we've allowed our country to be taken over by corporate interests you simply don't get any regulations and at the local level where you know the state or local level where these permits would be issued as to whether a plant could even be built in a inside of a town they control over the regularity is even worse so we centrally have a free for all in the united states who are again tourists factories and producers of these kinds of explosive chemicals they can build them anywhere they want and you know right next to a hospital a nursing home a school what have you and there's no no control at all so even it is in the states a big questions being asked as we've heard this tragedy in texas has highlighted risk management failures in the united states and it's raised concerns over the

aging infrastructure too is time i must say discussed better with our new you'll correspondent reporting. it is no secret that america's crumbling infrastructure is considered the most dangerous domestic circumstance lurking in every corner of the country for many many years the american society of civil engineers has given the u.s. grade d. plus when it comes to its infrastructure and there's many reasons that the first first and foremost is because the u.s. is not investing in in fixing its infrastructure its bridges its tunnels its airports its security system environmentalists also are saying that safety inspectors are going in inciting certain facilities such as the one we're seeing in texas with failing grades for not having the appropriate risk management plans in place or not having the right upgraded systems we've seen that massive explosion in texas out of schools recently the boston mess boston marathon bombings i let's talk

a little bit about that how slow way all in terms of investigating and catching the perpetrate to a public changes all that mess of bombing what federal officials say so far is that they are zeroing in on finding a man who work that they saw in surveillance video that dropped a bag shortly before the bombs ignited that's it's been quite a dark week for the united states you know in texas we see a scenario where looks like a nuclear bomb was was set off and then in boston it was similar to an i.e.d. bomb you know set off or one that you know that iraq and afghanistan is quite familiar with this morning to two officials including secret service and the f.b.i. there was a letter that was sent to president obama but it was intercepted on tuesday and letter allegedly had a rice in in it which is poisonous ingredient and in addition to that there's also

been reports that at least two u.s. senators both republicans received a suspected suspicious mail which turned out to be. containing also mail that contained rice and it was tested positive for that rice and that's not something that dissipated clearly by members in washington to happen so quickly after. bombings that took place in boston that claimed the lives of at least three people and left more than one hundred seventy people hospitalized from every corner right now we are seeing a lot of. you know cautious and dangerous things happening to two innocent civilians and going up as high as the president of the united states lots of frightening events happening. in the states as texas governor rick perry's been speaking about the tragedy in that small community. suffered that explosion earlier on that he is so what he had to say was truly a nightmare scenario for that community. but as i said earlier we're blessed in

this state to have the best emergency management team in the country this tragedy has most likely hit every family touched. practically everyone in that town. for a long time of course as we closely follow me going on in texas the. tragedy from the outside lining up for. reaction and getting pictures from the scene as well we've had to keep across developments minute by minute. you know some of the news tonight that the glamour of the ground praise coming to. play to. blood after the break demonstrators a struggling to draw attention to human rights abuses that. well . it's technology innovations all the developments from around

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. again in bahrain protests against this weekend's formula one grand prix of turn violent demonstrators are furious at the authorities decision to go ahead with the elite event despite growing complaints of human rights abuses in the country riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades have protested through petrol bombs at the offices say they've arrested six people for blocking roads and setting cars a place activists accuse formula one of ignoring rights abuses as security forces clamp down in the lead up to the event and as wiki leaks founder julian assange has told us the international community is turning a blind eye to bahrain. it's disgraceful and the british involvement is even worse you had the former brother former organizational chief was calling up going over to bahrain to help win control parade in the same way that one that is called in

relation to police. control demonstrations. in. united states. should be hated by the united states of course has to do with the us naval base. and. politically brain is very close to iran. it's close the strait where a lot of oil shipping is done us stable base in order to control it. and that's all well that's plenty concussions and these are the people who will sell their soul to put words the bahraini regime. actually putting out twenty dollars to tweet about how wonderful it is raising funds to that she thought it is disgusting these people are disgusting. everyone should know it but you know. similarly with the former one exactly the same thing brain port but you know what

to cover up its human rights abuses and it's bad reputation there's another way appealing way things are. washington is not yet ready to recognize the results of venezuela's presidential election that's according to u.s. secretary of state john kerry sunday's polls in the oil rich nation saw the designated area of chavis nicolas maduro win by a razor thin majority prompting large scale rallies across the country both for and against his victory meanwhile venezuela's supreme court ruled there's no legal basis for a recount which was demanded by opposition rival and the u.s. newly elected president also claims of washington's been trying to destabilize venezuela sociology professor dr william robinson told us this is nothing new when it comes to u.s. tactics in the region. this is not a new tactic on the part of washington and an attack took the. not only tactic on the part of the new of the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right in latin america which aligns with washington the idea is you have to start this

civilization campaign this is simply another tactic within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity attended in two thousand and two massive us financing for the internal opposition including for property days and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when there's all the action which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of a government in this case the. government around an election it will launch violence and trying create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the result and this is the this is an incredible focus on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive for because mexico's a close ally of the united states is the us media recognizes the results in the north of georgia's proposition that this floor has no moral authority whatsoever to talk about they're going to sort of them elections. ninety minutes personal. breaking news no bring you this time about online privacy the controversial cyber

intelligence sharing and protection act been approved by the u.s. house of representatives this detail just coming in the bill which encourages private businesses to share information with the government will now move to the senate after its expected approval to be signed into law by president obama but senior white house advisers earlier said they'd recommended vetoes the act the orses of the bill say it's an effort to combat attempts to steal america's trade secrets but critics say it's a gross violation of the privacy of internet users you can expect us to follow this one up for you throughout the coming hours. in challenging times many turn to the church for solace and support but in britain the growing number of atheists has led to the creation of an essentially new congregation in which religion is taken out of the equation artie's probably boy has spoke to some of the nonbelievers about what drives them though to use the house of god anyway. if you want to britain is growing number of atheists a sunday morning might present itself as an opportunity to just sleep in and relax

after all there's no sunday mass to attend well not exactly more and more of london's atheists are waking up on a sunday morning and going to church. so not sure i can put in. more. probably but there's no talk of saints or sinners here we was listening to the so that pasta over your shoulder cause you sure. this is why i think. you want the. world living better in the sunday assembly sense of the term peaches singing i. don't sing. moralistic tales told by stand up comedians i like the taste of probably takes off because it gets into our very basics of what we need as humans like being welcoming is a really big part of the life like i mean because we don't have the force of

a healthy economy. and i notice that like we're forgetting sometimes to be well since its launch london as have been clamoring to attend with more non washup as turning up and can fit into the venue i was relieved. to see you do you assume a lot of there are a. lot of unity coming together to seize all the old model was no place to apply to the show. that's a quarter of brits now describe themselves as having no religion and that figure is going up by three quarters of a million annually at the same time christianity is losing more than half a million followers a year with trends as they are the number of atheists is set to overtake the number of christians by twenty thirty congregations are getting older and older and

i think we're getting now to the stage where the second generation is a people who just never been in a church more and more people are finding that the church is not relevant and putting. nearly where we have the leaders of churches taking positions on women's rights and on on gay rights which are so clear very unsure of what the majority of people in the congregation think but these modern day atheists to still seeking out some sort of spiritual solace we were really shocked at how many people would say we weren't expecting this number of people and i think it says something about how people feel that if it would be easy for you to say to the something i thought you know be interesting to kind of be in a group of people. having a chat about how to live our lives which you don't going to get except in hopes that a meeting at church prayer few years there's time ago but i could not cross the cross

except for the first aid cross over here that's the only one i've seen so far i think just because you don't believe in god doesn't mean that you don't want to hear really interesting talks to think about improving yourself to sing with others and then to have a cup of tea with people at the end i mean this is really all the best things about church but one thing which i'm uncomfortable with which is the religion part fourteen point one million brits now describe themselves as faithless a label that these known washed up as feel comfortable celebrating was. at sea london. were closely follow of course what's been happening in texas after that massive blast early today the fertilizer plant because it extensive up to date coverage on our online and our t. dot com throughout the coming i was in fact i'll be back with more news now often i was time between now and then they modern day gold rush in colombia report on that soon as we come back.

i reckon cardiologist dr omar. claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did he see puts to data that the number of press cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukaemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasion of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation

is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yet you know saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly the present so for the invasions of iraq good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion. download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy

your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on see any time anyway. for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota be independent expert coolio fiero denounces an incest race relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. know it thought about it it isn't just an impression it's a reality there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elite that they serve the interests of the big multinationals that marked in red on the map of the

country the land requested for mining concessions of vast area the multinationals bag the major part of the mining rights about seventy percent of the andes is tenure and all covered by requests from mining concessions well you know if they when we see that it's easy to imagine that we're all going to find ourselves expropriated where are we going to grow the economy and people's food yet what's going to happen to our regions if that's so that it's a completely irrational gamble that. the mining permits are already allocated but the big companies aren't yet mining the andes gold. the largest reserves lie in the heart of the cordillera mountains where the revolutionary armed forces of colombia the fark operate at war with the colombian government for over fifty years no one can penetrate this region without their authorisation with the help of divers go betweens we've established contact with

the four guerrilla fighters they've authorized us to travel through their zone while waiting to receive us. and. the local economy is based on coca plant growing. these small green leaves are the raw material of cocaine. after years of anti drug enforcement cocoa farming is going through a crisis more and more pickers are leaving the fields to work in the gold mines. we penetrate into the mining zone in the far controlled mountains we get there by mule a two day journey with a good guide. is the president of a local small scale miners association. with us for all that used to be cocoa plantations. and the governor.